Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to understand these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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