Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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