Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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