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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in blended learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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