Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are empowering humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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