Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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