Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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