Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students 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 several issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to understand these open education experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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