Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in online learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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