Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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