Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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