Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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