Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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