Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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