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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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