Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in digital education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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