Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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