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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open education undertakings. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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