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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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