Find out more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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