Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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