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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning enable learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better understand these new open education ventures. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Course