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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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