Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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