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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online learning are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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