Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education initiatives. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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