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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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