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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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