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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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