Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in elearning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always 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 issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)