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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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