Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Educational Technology