Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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