Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education endeavours. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this increasing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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