Find out more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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