Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning have empowered students all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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