Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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