Find out more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning make it possible for students in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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