Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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