Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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