Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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