Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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