Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning are enabling learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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