Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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