Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning enable people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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