Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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