Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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