Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education initiatives. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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