Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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