Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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