Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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