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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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