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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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