Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open education ventures. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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