Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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