Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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