Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in digital education technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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