Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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