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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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