Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning have empowered humans all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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