Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology enable learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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