Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education ventures. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Distance Education