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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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