Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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