Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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