Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in e-learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing 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 quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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