Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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