Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better grasp these important new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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