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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education have enabled learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open educational initiatives. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education