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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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