Find out more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education enable humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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