Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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