Find out more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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