Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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