Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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