Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp these important new open education undertakings. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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