Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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