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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily 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 many subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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