Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic education technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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