Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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