Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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