Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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