Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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