Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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