Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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