Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning have enabled students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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