Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are customarily 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 variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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