Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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