Learn more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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