Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other participants need to better perceive these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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