Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 many subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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