Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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