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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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