Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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