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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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