Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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