Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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