Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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