Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better perceive these exciting new open education endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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