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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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