Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators 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 different business models are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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