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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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