Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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