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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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