Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Trainers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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