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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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