Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning have empowered learners all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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