Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are typically free for learners 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 issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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