Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning enable students in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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