Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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