Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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