Find out more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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