Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in e-learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. 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. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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