Find out more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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