Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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