Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in classes online. 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. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to understand these fascinating new open educational undertakings. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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