Learn more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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