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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in digital education technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not 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 online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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