Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to better understand these open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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