Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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