Find out more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology enable humans all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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