Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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