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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning enable people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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