Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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