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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education make it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the 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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