Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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