Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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