Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also studies the key 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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