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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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