Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education make it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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