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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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