Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily 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 lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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