Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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