Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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