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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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