Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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