Learn more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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