Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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