Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology are empowering humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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