Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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