Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education ventures. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also articulates the key 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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