Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? 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 organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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