Learn more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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