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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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