Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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