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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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