Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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