Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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