Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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