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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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