Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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