Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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