Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are generally free for students 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 a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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