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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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