Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education enable learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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