Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better grasp these interesting new open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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