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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like San Diego State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Learning