Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? 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 Honduras to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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