Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs 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 online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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