Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in electronic education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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