Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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