Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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