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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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