Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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