Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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