Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in learning technology enable humans all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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