Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning enable humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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