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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take 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 MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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