Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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