Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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