Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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