Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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