Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in digital education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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