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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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