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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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