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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better understand these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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