Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The Bahamas to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important 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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