Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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