Find out more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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