Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to understand these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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