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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp these interesting new open education ventures. Academics want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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