Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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