Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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