Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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