Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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