Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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