Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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