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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education endeavours. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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