Find out more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology enable humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free 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 learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to understand these promising new open education initiatives. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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