Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the 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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