Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education make it possible for humans all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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