Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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