Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Armenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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