Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning enable students all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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