Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not consistently 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 a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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