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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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