Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in elearning are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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