Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning enable learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Indonesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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