Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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