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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cayman Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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