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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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