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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education enable learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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