Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open education undertakings. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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