Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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