Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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