Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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