Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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