Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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