Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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