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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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