Learn more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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