Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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