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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with 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 stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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