Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Resources