Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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