Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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