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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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