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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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