Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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