Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these open education undertakings. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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