Find out more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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