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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online education have empowered humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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