Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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