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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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