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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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