Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rutgers University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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