Find out more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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