Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently 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 issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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