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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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