Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology are enabling students in nations all aver the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online 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 learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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