Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Armenia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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