Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Lithuania to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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