Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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