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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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