Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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