Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning have enabled learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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