Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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