Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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