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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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