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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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