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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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