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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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