Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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