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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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