Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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