Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also deals with the major 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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