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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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