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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in distance learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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