Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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