Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Finland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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