Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have made it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Utah State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses 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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