Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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