Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are free for learners 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 a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. People want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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