Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes 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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