Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in learning technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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