Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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