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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are empowering students in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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