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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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