Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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