Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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