Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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