Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources