Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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