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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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