Find out more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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