Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants would like to understand these new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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