Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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