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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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