Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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