Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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