Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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