Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online learning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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