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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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