Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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