Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ethiopia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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