Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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