Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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