Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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