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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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