Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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