Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are generally free for students 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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