Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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