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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education technology are empowering students all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ethiopia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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