Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bhutan to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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