Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open education ventures. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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