Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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