Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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