Find out more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic educational technology are enabling students all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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