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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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