Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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