Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also addresses the 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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