Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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