Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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