Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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