Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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