Learn more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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