Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Electronic Educational Technology