Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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