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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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