Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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