Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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