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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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