Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. 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. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Aruba to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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