Learn more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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