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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the sensational 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 discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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