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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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