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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning have empowered learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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