Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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