Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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