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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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