Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs) Definition