Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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