Find out more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning technology enable learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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