Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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