Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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