Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Lebanon to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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