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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Denmark to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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