Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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