Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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