Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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