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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take online courses. 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 online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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