Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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