Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. 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. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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