Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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