Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open educational initiatives. People want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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