Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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