Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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