Find out more about this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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