Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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