Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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