Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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