Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Togo to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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