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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also reviews 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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