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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to better understand these fascinating new open educational ventures. People want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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