Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOC Courses For Credit