Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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