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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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