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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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