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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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