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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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