Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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