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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Pakistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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