Find out more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also considers 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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