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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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