Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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