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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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