Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education enable humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 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 institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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