Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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