Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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