Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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