Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered humans all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners 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. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like North Seattle Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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