Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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