Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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