Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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