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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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