Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Bangladesh to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to understand these new open education ventures. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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