Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Macedonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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