Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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