Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning technology enable humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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