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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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