Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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