Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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