Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the 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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