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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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