Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Universities want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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