Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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