Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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