Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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