Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always 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 e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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