Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Honduras to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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