Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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