Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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