Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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