Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education enable humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Isle of Man to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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