Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to understand these promising new open educational ventures. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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