Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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