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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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