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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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