Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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