Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in digital education technology are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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