Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always 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 lot of topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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