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 having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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