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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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