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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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