Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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