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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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