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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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