Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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