Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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