Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Croatia to conduct these MOOC classes? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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