Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning have made it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Howland Island to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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