Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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