Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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