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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in electronic educational technology enable students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. People want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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