Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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