Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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