Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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