Learn more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are empowering humans all over the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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