Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic education technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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