Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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