Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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