Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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