Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in digital education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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