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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Trainers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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