Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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