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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in blended learning enable people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Colombia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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