Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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