Learn more about this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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