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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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