Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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