Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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