Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education enable students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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