Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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