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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Slovenia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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