Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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