Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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