Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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