Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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