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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also articulates the 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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