Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online learning enable humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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