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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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