Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning make it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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