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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning enable learners all over the world to take classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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