Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in e-learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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 many subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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