Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also analyzes the most important 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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