Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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