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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology enable students in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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