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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly 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 a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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