Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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