Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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