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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic educational technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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