Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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