Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to understand these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the key 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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