Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online education enable students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the major 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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