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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in e-learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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