Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in online learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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