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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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