Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education enable people all over the world to take 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 open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better perceive these exciting new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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