Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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