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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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