Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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