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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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