Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in elearning are empowering humans all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Honduras to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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