Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning make it possible for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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