Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning enable humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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