Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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