Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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