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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants need to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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