Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are generally free 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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