Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Singapore to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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