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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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