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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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