Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these open educational endeavours. Teachers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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