Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses Moocs