Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for learners all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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