Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers 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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