Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants want to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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