Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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