Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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