Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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