Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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