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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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