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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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