Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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