Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are almost always 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 several issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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