Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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