Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have provided the means for students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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