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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education enable people all over the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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