Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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