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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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