Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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