Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Burundi to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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