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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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