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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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