Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in e-learning enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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