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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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