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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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