Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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