Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in e-learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not 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 many subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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