Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education ventures. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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