Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning have empowered humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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