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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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