Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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