Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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