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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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