Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always 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 numerous issues that blended learning organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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