Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open educational ventures. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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