Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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