Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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