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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology make it possible for learners all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free 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 several topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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