Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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