Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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