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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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