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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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