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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free 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 several issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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