Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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