Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guernsey to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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