Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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