Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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