Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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