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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important 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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