Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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