Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning technology make it possible for learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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