Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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