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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in distance learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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