Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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