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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are empowering humans all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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