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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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