Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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