Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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