Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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