Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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